Today:
1563 – The final session of the Council of Trent was held, marking the end of the Catholic Church’s Counter-Reformation efforts initiated in 1545.
1755 – Gilbert Stuart, an American painter best known for his portraits of George Washington, was born in North Kingstown, Rhode Island.
1775 – The first official American flag, the Grand Union Flag, was raised by John Paul Jones aboard the Continental Navy ship Alfred.
1818 – Illinois was admitted as the 21st state of the United States.
1901 – US President Theodore Roosevelt delivered a groundbreaking speech about conservation to Congress, emphasizing the importance of preserving natural resources.
1910 – Modern neon lighting was demonstrated for the first time by inventor Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.
1927 – The first successful long-distance demonstration of television was made by inventor Philo Farnsworth.
1967 – Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the world’s first successful human heart transplant in Cape Town, South Africa.
1984 – More than 3,000 people were killed and thousands injured due to a gas leak at a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.
1992 – The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) entered into force, setting the stage for international climate negotiations.
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